noologyn.

1817 J. Bentham Chrestomathia Pt. II 196 Alegopathematic, or say Alego-æsthetic Pneumatology has, for its single-worded synonym, the not unexpressive appellation Noology.

a1832 J. Bentham Ess. Logic in Wks. (1843) VIII. 289/1 The field of the corresponding branch of science may be termed the field of noology.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. vii. 123 We have several deservedly forgotten treatises, of an older date, under the inviting name of Noologies.

1893 Mind 2 385 Empirical Psychology must be supplemented by Noology. This however is not to be understood as if the Absolute Idea were to be grasped by an intellectual effort.

1915 A. C. Mason tr. H. Höffding Mod. Philosophers 207 The philosophy of religion does not need a special method of its own, and ‘noology’ is itself but a via media between speculation and practical belief.

1956 M. H. Moore tr. A. A. Cournot Ess. Found. Knowl. xxii. 494 Somatology is broken up into the science of quantities (posology, mathematics) and the science of qualities (poiosomatology); while pneumatology is subdivided into noology (logic and ideology) and anoopneumatology, which includes pathoscopy and ethics.

1991 Amer. Hist. Rev. 96 822/2 Universal history, for Bonnaud, must build on noology, the ‘science’ of the ‘noosphere’..which refers to the specifically human realm of thought, action, and activity and which is present..throughout human evolution.